How Nimbo started their logo design journey

Company name

Nimbo

Overview

Nimbo is a cleantech software startup based in Las Vegas, NV, with roots at Harvard, MIT and Northwestern University. Nimbo is the name of the software product that we will be bringing to market and also serves as the "Does-Business-As" (DBA) name of the company (Hydrolosophy, LLC). Nimbo is comprised of a solid, creative team with professional backgrounds in software, corporate sustainability, environmental science and general business management. We are competing in several national business plan competitions this year, and will be featured in a variety of media outlets. The cleantech industry is a rapidly growing field and we aim to become the preferred software for sustainability performance data management.

Requirements

Logo should be modern looking and professional.
The logo will be used on the company website, documents, marketing material and business cards. Clean and Simple. White background.

Logo should be preceded (to the left of "nimbo" lettering) by a creative, cartoon animated, attractive 3D variation of a blue cloud. Shading, effects, gloss and gradient are welcome, please express creativity or simplicity (see attached file of animated cloud for quick reference - looking to enhance features, but stay with "happy looking" theme).

"nimbo" lettering can be black, lighter blue or an attractive combination thereof (no more than 2 colors please), with similar shading, effect, gloss and or gradient as preceding graphic image (see attached file of parent company logo for quick blue color reference - room for slight variation of color) .

A vector based logo that is scalable will work best. Please provide us with an EPS and AI format logo, as well as a JPEG, GIF and TIFF. Additionally we require all ownership and copyrights with the option to alter colors. Logo will be trademarked*

Please no clipart or photos.

Submissions will be closely followed and feedback will be given as the contest matures.